<p>Longue Vue Club and Golf Course is a historic golf course and clubhouse in Penn Hills Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. It was founded in the 1920s. It was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1985, and the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1920, Pittsburgh businessman Edward W. Mudge spoke with a group of his peers about wanting to establish a golf course of their own. These were men of power and great wealth, and among their ranks were Edward V. Babcock, mayor of Pittsburgh and president of Babcock Lumber Company; Ernest T. Weir, president of Weirton Steel Company; A.L. Humphrey, president of Westinghouse Air Brake Company; J. Morrison Hansen, president of Standard Steel Car Company; as well as 13 other corporate executives who enjoyed the game of golf, which was just beginning to sweep the country. They were also men of action, because one week later they acquired a farm and adjacent lots for $150,000. These 370 acres were dramatically sited atop the highest point in Penn Hills Township and commanded a sweeping panorama of the Allegheny River Valley. The founding fathers named it (French for "long view"). Legend has it that when Longue Vue couldn&#39;t meet expenses during the depression, the gents rolled dice or cut cards to see who would cover the shortfall that year. Not surprisingly, Longue Vue became known as "The Millionaires Club."</p><br>
<p>In addition to golf, the stables were erected in 1922, and equestrians trotted along six miles of bridle paths. While relatively short-lived, the club’s first recreational activity is memorialized by the riding saddle in Longue Vue’s crest.</p><br>
<h2>Course Design</h2><br>
<h3>Course Architect Robert White</h3><br>
<p>The golf course at the Longue Vue Club was designed by a man who is sometimes forgotten, yet greatly recognized as being one of the forefathers of golf in America. Robert White, whom the Club still honors through a yearly golf event, was commissioned to build the golf course by Longue Vue’s Board of Governors in April 1922. Robert White was born in 1874 in St. Andrews, Scotland and immigrated to the United States in 1894. White began laying out courses from the time he arrived in the United States. In these years, it would typically only take him only one morning to walk the land and decide on nine tee and green locations.</p><br>
<p>In 1902, Robert White helped found the Illinois Professional Golf Association and was appointed their president. This society was only the second of its kind in the world, due to the fact that the British PGA was only founded in 1901. When the United States PGA was founded in 1916, White was elected its first president due to his close relationship to nearly a third of the pros in the United States, and he held the position until 1920.</p><br>
<p>White was the first to use agronomic methods to maintain grass, which was essential to the success of the golf in the United States due to the drastic differences in terrain and weather patterns cross-country. A true pioneer, Robert White was the first to build a putting green on the White House lawn, one of the first designers and manufacturers of golf clubs in America, designer and builder of over 100 golf courses, and responsible for bringing golf to the Grand Strand in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.</p><br>
<h3>A.W. Tillinghast</h3><br>
<p>Prolific golf architect Albert Warren Tillinghast renovated the course in 1935, making several recommendations to improve on the original layout. Tillinghast&#39;s contributions left a lasting mark, and truly made course what it is today. He is often remembered as the first designer who consciously set out to create golf holes that were visually attractive, helping to transform golf course architecture from its roots in nature to a greater art form. Tillinghast drew on the principles of landscape design, engineering and art to transform a property into a spectacular playing field. During the torpor of the Great Depression, Tillinghast offered to help clubs such as economize on their maintenance. His suggestions can be noted in a letter that was sent by him to the PGA President on October 18, 1935. The following excerpt is from that letter:</p><br>
<p>“As directed by your telegram, I left here on the afternoon of the 15th by train, arriving at New Haven the next morning. On the morning of the 15th, at the request of P.G.A member Will McKay, I inspected the course at Longue Vue (note corrected spelling of previous report) Club at Pittsburgh. I was accompanied by McKay, J.H. Baily (Chairman of the Green Committee) and W.H. Key (Greenskeeper). Their chief problem has been the first hole with a blind drive to a side hill fairway. I gave them full instructions for a rather extensive grading operation, which they requested. Their next problem centered about the 10th and 11th holes, where a stiff climb to the former was most objectionable. I corrected this with a new site for the 9th green (a better one than originally) a new green for the shortened tenth and a new teeing ground for a shortened eleventh. In this manner the hill climb is eliminated completely.”</p><br>
<h2>Clubhouse Architects</h2><br>
<h3>Benno Janssen</h3><br>
<p>The founders commissioned renowned architect Benno Janssen to design a clubhouse with the old world charm of an English Country estate. Janssen’s trademark style is evident throughout the clubhouse with his use of multiple high-pitched gables, slate roof, large groupings of rectangular windows, unusually wide chimneys, and intricately carved stone detail. He designed to have a 1:1 ratio of indoor to outdoor space by providing spacious terraces around the circumference of the building.</p><br>
<p>Janssen’s work can be found throughout the Pittsburgh area, both commercially and residentially. His work includes the William Penn Hotel, the Mellon Institute, the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, and Rolling Rock Club. Janssen is also renowned for more than three dozen homes in the Pittsburgh area, including La Tourelle and the Ingersoll House, both in Fox Chapel.</p><br>
<p>Benno Janssen was born in 1874 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied architecture at the University of Kansas, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Settling in Pittsburgh in 1905, he eventually partnered with William York Cockren, the firm that was commissioned to prepare the plans for clubhouse. The building became in use in 1924.</p><br>
<p>Janssen’s design was primarily based upon the English Norman vernacular. Architectural historian James D. Van Trump notes Janssen’s “easy and clever handling of the picturesque, vernacular forms of the English Country house school of the early 20th century. Here we have the manner of the Surrey houses of Lutyens gracefully adapted to the requirements of the 20th century America. This adaptation is most apparent in the graceful arched automobile portals.”</p><br>
<p>The has honored Benno Janssen through the naming of its informal dining room, “The Janssen Room.”</p><br>
<p>was designated as a National Historic District in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>The Inaugural Round</h2><br>
<p>The first official round of golf was played at in May 1923. Although very little information is known regarding the teams, scores, or winners, the players were a very interesting bunch.</p><br>
<p>The first of these players was Glenna Collett Vare. Mrs. Vare was a six time USA Women’s Amateur Champion between 1922 and 1935. She was known for her strength and even had drives measured to be over 300 yards long. She is also known for the role she played in originating the Curtis Cup, a professional women’s golf tournament where the United States plays against Great Britain and Ireland, as well as for her participation as a player-captain for several years.</p><br>
<p>Ms. Edith Cummings was also a player in the club’s inaugural round. She was the first female athlete to appear on the cover of TIME Magazine, and was featured on the issue of August 25, 1924. She was given this honor less than one year after winning the 1923 USA Women’s Amateur Championships. A fascinating fact about Edith Cummings is that the character Jordan, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, was based solely off of her.</p><br>
<p>The third player in the match was Mr. “Jock” Hutchinson. In his golf career, Mr. Hutchinson was won two major events, the 1920 PGA Championship and the 1921 Open Championship at St. Andrew’s. Coincidentally, he was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, but he left home and became a USA citizen. This made him the first USA-based player to win an event of this magnitude. Mr. Hutchinson also won the inaugural PGA Seniors’ Championship in 1937 at Augusta National Golf Club and won the event a second time in 1947.</p><br>
<p>The fourth and final player to play in the inaugural round at was Mr. Joseph Kirkwood. Mr. Kirkwood was a professional player and one of the most prominent trick shot golfers of the time.</p><br>
<p>The Hutchinson Farm is an historic, American farm that is located in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and archtectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic farmhouse was built in 1865 and was designed in a vernacular Victorian style. The farm is situated adjacent to the Van Kirk Farm, which is also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Hutchinson Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Van Kirk Farm is an historic, American farm that is located in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1986, it is adjacent to the Hutchinson Farm, which is also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This fairly simple frame farmhouse was built circa 1840 and was designed in the Greek Revival style. Several other buildings on the farm were built during the mid or late nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1986. The farm is adjacent to the Hutchinson Farm, which is also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>In "John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed, By occupation a gatherer," according to Mary Grace Hodges (as told to her by her grandmother), Johnny Appleseed (Johnny Chapman) gathered apple seeds from the Van Kirk cider mill.</p><br>
<p>The Thornburg Historic District is a historic district that is located in Thornburg, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Planned as a suburban development during the early twentieth century, this district encompasses seventy-five contributing buildings; all but one are residential. Situated within four miles from downtown Pittsburgh, the district remains intact as an example of early suburban development.</p><br>
<p>The majority of houses were built in the Bungalow or Shingle styles, with others in the Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial, Mission or Tudor styles. Cousins Frank and David Thornburg developed the approximately 250 acres, starting circa 1900.</p><br>
<p>The Thornburg School was built in 1910 to the design of Press C. Dowler in the Mission style. It was used as a school until 1971 and continues to be used as a community center.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Kolping Park and Chapel is a religious facility previously located at 47440 Sugarbush Road in Chesterfield Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1849, Adolph Kolping founded a Catholic journeymens association, the forerunner of what today is known as the Kolping Society. The society promotes members development through education and activities. In 1926, Father Joseph Wuest, a former bricklayer, established a chapter of the society in Detroit. The local chapter acquired the land that is now Kolping Park in 1929. The society cleared the land, planted trees, and constructed some buildings. In 1932, Wuest designed and constructed the chapel on this site. The property is still owned by the Detroit branch of the Kolping Society of America.</p><br>
<p>The Kolping Society decided in 2015 to sell the park land and donated the Kolping Chapel to the Chesterfield Township Historical Society. On September 28, 2016, the chapel was moved from Kolping Park, down Sugarbush Road, to the Chesterfield Township Historical Village, where it presently sits.</p><br>
<h2>Rev. Father Joseph Wuest</h2><br>
<p>Rev. Father Joseph Wuest was born in Nassau, Germany on July 7, 1869. He attended school in Thalheim, and studied further at Mesnières-en-Bray and at Langonnet, where he graduated in 1896. He was appointed a professor at Knechtsteden, where he served until 1899, when he emigrated to the United States to serve as an assistant pastor in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. Wuest served from 1902 to 1907 as a hospital chaplain, and in 1907, he was made pastor of St. Mary&#39;s church in Detroit. He immediately began working with immigrant German families, and in 1911 reached out to African American families, one of the first white church leaders to do so.</p><br>
<p>Wuest founded the local chapter of the Kolping Society in 1926, but ill-health forced him to retire as St. Mary&#39;s pastor in 1929, although he still heard confessions. Wuest died in July, 1958.</p><br>
<h2>Park and Chapel Description</h2><br>
<p>Kolping Park is a 19-acre parcel, rectangular in shape, running from Sugarbush Road to the Vase River. The park contains Kolping&#39;s historic wayside chapel, as well as a shrine to Blessed Father Adolph Kolping, and a pavilion, dance hall, rifle range, picnic shelter, parade grounds, playground, soccer field and parking lot on landscaped grounds.</p><br>
<p>The chapel is a Gothic Revival structure, designed and constructed by Joseph Wuest himself. It is intended to be reminiscent of European wayside chapels. It is constructed from stones and shells sent to Wuest by Kolping societies from all over the world. Wuest inscribed a plaque with "Honor by means of untiring work" in the chapel.</p><br>
<p>The landscaping of the grounds as well as several of the structures were designed by Kolping Society members, including Vincent Schultes, Joseph Schultes, Wendel Schultes and Frank Foster.</p><br>
<p>The Lehner Grain-and-Cider Mill and House is a historic American structure located at 548 and 560 Penn Street in Verona, Pennsylvania. Built circa 1895, It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Charles Lehner, who built the mill, and his wife, Mary Magdalene Huber, emigrated from Austria to Pittsburgh&#39;s North Side and later to Verona. The mill began operating in 1896. Lehner died in 1908 and the mill was run by his son Joseph until 1920 when he died, forcing his wife of three daughters to sell it.</p><br>
<p>Christine Davis Consultants, who work in archeological studies and historic preservation, bought the mill in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 1996.</p><br>
<p>Bartram&#39;s Covered Bridge, a historic covered bridge built in 1860, uses a Burr Truss design and carried Goshen Road over Crum Creek on the border between Delaware County and Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is 30 ft long and 13 ft wide and is the only covered bridge remaining of the 30 which once stood in Delaware County. The bridge has slanted planks at each entrance and is the only covered bridge in Pennsylvania with this feature. According to an on-site marker from the Newtown Square Historical Preservation Society, the bridge was built to be "hi and wide as a load of hay" It was built by Ferdinand Wood and named for Mordecai Bartram.</p><br>
<p>It was closed to traffic in 1941 and stands next to a new bridge on Goshen Road. The east end of the bridge is located in Newtown Township, Delaware County and the west end in Willistown Township, Chester County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall  is a public library and music hall located at 300 Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Like hundreds of other Carnegie libraries, the construction of the ACFL&MH, which opened in 1901, was funded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The ACFL&MH has been recognized as a historic landmark and appears on the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks and the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Andrew Carnegies decision to build a library in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, was originally inspired by the towns adoption of his name. In 1894, the neighboring boroughs of Chartiers and Mansfield voted to merge their communities into one larger borough and chose to name their new town in honor of Carnegie. Carnegie was so moved by the gesture that he offered to build a public library in the middle of the town.</p><br>
<p>On April 26, 1898, Carnegie gifted the town with an initial grant of US$200,000 for the building of the library and an attached music hall, lecture hall, and gymnasium; he also provided an additional $10,000 for the library to purchase books and used any remaining grant funds to start an endowment fund for the new library.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall holds a unique position as one of the four Carnegie libraries that received endowments from Andrew Carnegie. Whereas most of the towns gifted with Carnegie libraries were required to adhere to the “Carnegie Formula”—an arrangement where the town agreed to subsidize their new library with public taxes—towns with endowed libraries were not required to publicly fund them.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Thomas R. Kerr House and Office at 438 4th Street in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, USA, was built in 1897. The Queen Anne house and the doctor&#39;s office behind the house were added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 2, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the Kerr Memorial Museum which shows the upper middle class lives of the doctor, his wife Nellie, and their daughter Virginia, in the period of 1900–1910. Virginia taught English at the local schools for 42 years. She never married and donated the house to the Borough of Oakmont on her death in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Bridge in Shaler Township, which carries Burchfield Road over Pine Creek, is a single span stone arch bridge in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania built in 1915. The bridge is a high quality ashlar construction with the single span covering 63 feet. Stone arch bridges are rare in western Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Gardner-Bailey House at 124 West Swissvale Avenue in Edgewood, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, was built in 1864. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974, and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1984. The main section of the house has a square floor plan with four rooms on the first floor linked by a central hall, an extensive staircase, and three bedrooms and a bath on the second floor. A large dining room is directly to the rear and followed by a large kitchen with servant&#39;s quarters. A detached carriage house with turntable is located at the rear of the property.</p><br>
<p>C.W. Bill Young Lock and Dam  in Harmar Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and Plum, Pennsylvania, is a lock that was built in 1932. The lock and fixed-crest dam were built by the USA Army Corps of Engineers as a part of an extensive system of locks and dams to improve navigation along the Allegheny River.</p><br>
<p>C.W. Bill Young Lock and Dam is located about 14.5 Miles up the Allegheny River from the Point in Downtown Pittsburgh. Upriver, the pool has an average water elevation of 734.5 feet above sea level and extends about 9.7 miles upriver to Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 4. Downriver, Allegheny Pool No. 2 has an average water elevation of 721 feet above sea level and extends about 7.8 miles downriver to Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 2. Thus Lock No. 3 lifts and lowers boats about 13.5 feet between the pools.</p><br>
<p>The site has six contributing structures, the dam, the lock, an esplanade, the operations building, a gauging station, and a lockkeepers house.</p><br>
<p>Two 2-story frame lockkeepers houses for the former lock and dam structures were constructed about 1907, with the older house at 301 Barking Road surviving.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 21, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 4 in Harrison Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is a lock that was built 1920-1927, and opened in 1927, 24.2 miles upstream from the mouth of the river in Pittsburgh. The lock and dam were built by the USA Army Corps of Engineers as a part of an extensive system of locks and dams to improve navigation along the Allegheny River.</p><br>
<p>It is located about 24.2 Miles up the Allegheny River from the Point in Downtown Pittsburgh. Also, it is about 6 Miles down the Allegheny from the mouth of the Kiskiminetas River.</p><br>
<p>Upriver, Allegheny Pool No. 4 has an average water elevation of 745.4 feet above sea level and extends about 6.2 miles upriver to Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 5. Downriver, Allegheny Pool No. 3 has an average water elevation of 734.5 feet above sea level and extends about 9.7 miles downriver to Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 3. Thus Lock No. 4 lifts and lowers boats about 10.9 feet between the pools.</p><br>
<p>It has a single lock and a fixed-crest dam, keeping the river depth at least 9 feet in the pool above the dam. The amount of water that flows over the dam is not controlled locally, so it does not provide flood control, but it does help provide water to municipalities.</p><br>
<p>Traffic through the lock was about 1.8 million tons in 1998, including shipments of coal, petroleum, sand and gravel, ore, steel, chemicals, fertilizer, salt, flour, lime, and slag.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 21, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Davis Island Lock and Dam Site on the Ohio River in Avalon, Pennsylvania, is the site of the former Davis Island lock that was completed in 1885.</p><br>
<p>The lock and dam existed from 1878 to 1922, designed by William Emery Merrill and the USA Army Corps of Engineers. The Davis Island Lock and Dam was the first dam that was constructed on the Ohio River. It officially opened on October 7, 1885, with a large dedication ceremony. The Davis Island Dam was the largest Chanoine dam built in the 19th century, and one of the first concrete structures built by the Army Corps of Engineers. It was the first of 51 Chanoine type dams that were built by the Corps of Engineers between 1878 and 1929.</p><br>
<p>The dam was dismantled in 1922, when it was replaced by the Emsworth Locks and Dam less than a mile downstream of the original site. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1980 and designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is now owned by the West View Water Authority and is used primarily to pump water from the Ohio River, which then goes on to be purified and is used by the surrounding communities for drinking.</p><br>
<p>The Fulton Log House in Upper St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania, was built circa 1830. The log house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Alexander Gilfillan settled in Upper St. Clair Township in the late 1760s and eventually owned 413 acres. About 1830, he or his son, John, built houses for his workers including four or five log houses, with only one surviving to the present. This house remained in the Gilfillan Family until 1899. James E. and Emily Fulton bought the house in 1923 as a summer home. Their son James Grove Fulton was a lifelong bachelor and served in the USA Congress from 1945 to 1971. His estate sold the house to Upper St. Clair Township in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The 1830 Log House Association restored the house and now uses it for educational purposes.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Catholic Church, known as the "Prairie Cathedral" or the "Cathedral of the Cornfields", is a Roman Catholic church in Beaverville, Illinois. The Romanesque Revival church was built in 1909&ndash;1911. The church features two towers and a tiled dome roof; it is both the tallest and most prominent landmark in Beaverville. In 1996, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Prominent Chicago church architect Joseph Molitor designed the church in the Romanesque Revival style. The church was built using limestone blocks with a rough-cut exterior. The church has an L-shaped plan with a small wing in the back forming the leg. The building is both the tallest structure in Beaverville and the most visible landmark in the village.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s main entrance is located on its west side; the three sets of double doors are each topped by a stained glass transom. A pair of four-story towers are located on either side of the entrance. The third and fourth floors of each tower are open with pilasters framing the arched openings; balustrades run along the third-floor apertures, while the fourth-floor openings feature keystones and classical cornices. Triangular pediments are situated atop both towers.</p><br>
<p>The center of the church includes an octagonal section topped by a dome roof. The roof is composed of red French clay tiles. Each side of the octagon is 52 ft long with a 32 ft base. A small flat octagonal section at the top of the dome is fenced off by an iron railing. Seven secondary gable roofs cover the other parts of the church, while a smaller octagon tops the wing; these other roofs are also shingled with red tiles. Roughly 22,000 tiles were used to construct the church&#39;s roofs.</p><br>
<p>Each side of the church features seven arched stained glass windows on its first floor. Six windows on each side have the same dimensions, while a larger window is located in the base of the octagon. Each side of the octagons second story includes three smaller windows. The wing includes five additional stained glass windows; two are located on each floor of the west side, while the fifth is on the east sides second story.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The St. Marys parish was established in 1857, when the village of Beaverville was known as St. Marie. The parish opened its own school in 1895 and established a convent the following year. Due to the parishs increasing congregation, construction began on the current church building in 1909. The new church was dedicated in 1911; however, the buildings construction debts were not fully paid until 1945. After its debt was cleared, the congregation decorated the interior of the church; however, many of these decorations were lost to renovations in the 1970s. The parishs elementary and high schools closed in 1965 and 1969 respectively; services are still held in the church, however.</p><br>
<p>Wilpen Hall is an estate in Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania, located at 889–895 Blackburn Road and 201 Scaife Road. Built for William Penn Snyder and his wife during the late 19th century, it was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2001, and the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic home was built for William Penn Snyder and his wife as a summer home. Snyder was the founder of the Shenango Furnace Company and its subsidiaries. Designed by George Orth and Brothers in the style of an English Manor house, the residence was subsequently named "Wilpen," using a contraction of Snyder&#39;s first and middle names. Construction took place from 1897 to 1900. In 1930, the estate was left to their two sons, William Penn Snyder, Jr. and G. Whitney Snyder. As of 2006, the Snyder family still resided in the home.</p><br>
<h3>Placement of this property on the National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>The nomination materials for placement of Wilpen Hall on the National Register of Historic Places were reviewed by Pennsylvania&#39;s Historic Preservation Board on February 1, 2011, at 9:45 a.m. at the Labor and Industry Building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Also considered for National Register placement at this meeting were: the Robb Farm in Huntingdon County, the McCook Family Estate and the John A. Brashear House and Factory in Pittsburgh, the Montrose Historic District in Susquehanna County, the Quakertown Historic District in Bucks County, Alden Villa in Lebanon County, and the Tindley Temple United Methodist Church and Marian Anderson House in Philadelphia, as well as multiple historic African American churches in Philadelphia that were presented together on a "Multiple Property Documentation Form."</p><br>
<p>The historic estate was then officially added to the National Register of Historic Places later in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Usage in films</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was used for interior shots of John du Pont’s Foxcatcher Farm estate in the film Foxcatcher (2013), starring Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum.</p><br>
<p>Linden Grove was once a nationally designated historic place located at 1100 Grove Road in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania, but the original building  was torn down and it was delisted on January 20, 2000. The current building there is a more recent construction called The Linden Grove Nightclub. The original "Linden Grove was built as an attraction to German picnickers, as were several other groves patronized by various ethnic groups. Wagons with benches met picnickers at the train station and took them to whichever grove catered to their nationality."</p><br>
<p>The Beechdale Bridge, also known as the Burkholder Bridge, is a historic covered bridge in Brothersvalley Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Township Route 548 crosses Buffalo Creek on the bridge, southwest of Berlin. The Burr truss bridge was built in 1870 by an unknown builder and is owned by the county. A distinctive feature of the bridge is the low sidewalls, which leave much of the structure open to view. It is one of 10 covered bridges in Somerset County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The John E. Booth House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah. John E. Booth was a significant Provoan, and was extensively involved in Provo&#39;s community and religious affairs. Located at 59 West and 500 North and less than one acre in size, the John E. Booth House was built in 1900, and happens to be the only -story Victorian Mansion in Provo, Utah. This house is significant not only as a Victorian mansion, but because its "Bricks were individually painted to create a variegrated design effect" . The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmark Register on May 26, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The plan of this -story brick house derives from the vernacular L-plan and has a T extension in the rear. A hip roof and a gable roof section intersect to form the L. The extension has a hip roof. From each end of the hip roof are gable projections with pent roofs like the pent roof of the gable on the facade. Two tall chimneys with elaborate corbelling project from the hip roof section. Divisions between stories are subtly emphasized. Pairs of stringcourses divide the basement, first, second and third stories from one another. The division between the basement and first floor is further emphasized by color differentiation in the brick. The red brick of the basement was left unpainted, whereas the brick and mortar joints of the rest of the house except that on the T extension, have been painted various shades of brown and tan to create a varigated effect. The division between the second and third floors has a line of obliquely set bricks that runs beneath the stringcourses at the height of the second story lintels.</p><br>
<p>The fenestration of the facade is simple and carefully balanced. On the east half, the gable end, a simple Palladian window is centered on the top half story and a broad single sash window with a stained glass transom and stone lintel and lugsill is centered on each of the two lower stories. A single story square hip roof brick entrance chamber fills the angle of intersection of the hip and gable roof sections. Above it is a simple double hung sash window. On each story of the west half of the hip roof section is centered a single window similar to those on the gable end. Windows on the east, west and south sides of the building are long, narrow, have jigsaw cut detailing in the decorative arch above them, and are topped with a segmented reliving arch. Classical detailing includes: a boxed cornice on the main roofline and on that of the brick entry which is completely supported by brackets except on the T addition; the pediment over the entrance supported by a classical pier and pilaster which has a fan type of decoration on the tympanum; and dentils which line the lower edge of the transom of each single sash window. Major alterations include a change in the size of the opening of a window on the east wall and the addition of two frame extensions to the east and west sides of the T extension."</p><br>
<h2>John E. Booth</h2><br>
<p>Born in England in 1847, John E. Booth traveled to Utah with his parents in 1857 as a result of his family converting to the L.D.S. faith. Attaining his early education in England and his latter in the United States, studying at the University of Deseret and teaching in various towns throughout Utah, Booth eventually began to study law under the direction of John B. Milner. Booth began practicing law in 1875, the same year that he became the city attorney for the city of Provo. While serving in Provo, Booth was also a district judge. Active in politics as well as law, Booth served in the Utah Territorial Senate from 1890 to 1891, Mayor of Provo, and president of the local schoolboard. Booth was also a businessman, serving as director of several businesses and banks in the city of Provo, and heading the Utah Valley Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>Stalwart in his faith, John E. Booth served in many capacities in the Mormon religion throughout his life. He served in the position of a bishop (the man who presides over the local congregation), for the Provo Fourth Ward for over twenty years. Although he was a polygamist, having taken two wives in the early 1870s, both died approximately ten years later. He married again, but only one wife. John E. Booth died in 1920, and left the house to his widow. Selling it to her daughter and spouse, Elsie and Isaac E. Brockbank in 1923, the house still remains in the Brockbank family today.</p><br>
<p>George Pinkney Morgan House, also known as David Morgan Homeplace, is a historic home located at Rivesville, Marion County, West Virginia. It was built between 1857 and 1860, and is a two-story, red brick farmhouse in the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The George Pinkney Morgan House is a brick farmhouse in the Greek Revival style erected c. 1857–60. The two-story, red brick structure contains 10 rooms and as is typical of many houses built in the 19" century, incorporates a rear ell housing the kitchen, backstairs, and a servants bedroom or storeroom. The brick used in its construction was hand molded. The clay for the brick was obtained from a bank in front of, and slightly to the northeast of, the house. The walls are of masonry construction and appear to be three courses thick on the first story and two courses on the second story. This change in the masonry can be seen on the interior, along the main staircase wall, where it creates a wide ridge at the level of the landing. The building is supported by a foundation of two rows of rectangular, tooled stone creating a strong architectural and stylistic base for the brick laid above.</p><br>
<h3>Cemetery</h3><br>
<p>The Morgan Family Cemetery resides about 500 feet northeast of the house. A post and rail fence with a swing gate currently surrounds the graves. The rectangular site is approximately 60 feet by 50 feet with the larger length running parallel to the current road. A stately evergreen marks the southwest corner of the enclosure. Contained within are the remains of the original settlers of this property, Sarah and David Morgan. Their graves are the earliest extant stones, dating from 1799 and 1813 respectively. Other family members reside within the cemetery. Of particular interest is the grave of George Pinkney Morgan, the owner of the property at the time of the house&#39;s construction. His stone is inscribed with the following, "Sacred to the memory George Morgan who died in Camp Chase Dec 30, 1861 aged 41 years." It may be that his body does not reside at this location due to his death in a Confederate prison camp in the early years of the war. However, his name does not appear in the record of Confederate dead buried at Camp Chase, Ohio, leading one to suppose a family member claimed his body. In any case, the children and grandchildren of David Morgan reside in this cemetery, as do the children of George P. Morgan.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early Morgan family settlement (1720 - 1849)</h3><br>
<p>The property originates from land acquired by David Morgan in the 1760s. According to his son Stephen Morgan (1761 - 1849), David defeated 9 Native Americans in single combat various times, and participated in several raids on Indian villages. Along with his brother Zackquill Morgan, David served in the Virginia forces. David served during the Braddock Expedition, along with the Forbes Expedition.</p><br>
<p>During the late 1700s, David was involved with a dispute between two Native Americans on his Rivesville farm. Morgan spotted two natives approaching his children, and managed to lead them away while the children fled to Prickett&#39;s Fort. The story was first covered in the United States Magazine, reported by Hugh Henry Brackenridge. David was memorialized when a monument dedicated to him was placed on the grave of one of the natives. David Morgan later served several terms as justice of the peace of Monongalia County. He later moved his family to Fairmont, and died in 1813.</p><br>
<p>David&#39;s brother Zackwell served in the American Revolutionary War. He served in the battles of Saratoga. Following the war, he founded two towns, Pleasantville (now Rivesville), and Morgantown.</p><br>
<h3>Civil war (1820 - 1865)</h3><br>
<p>George P. Morgan (1820 - 1861), a farmer, miner, inventor, and slave owner began construction of his house in 1857 and it was completed between 1857 and 1860. His house was being built at the same time as 3 other relatives, Albert Morgan, Henry Morgan, and John Morgan. At the time of the American Civil war, the Morgan family considered themselves to be Confederates. George served in the war, but was caught in a skirmish at Camp Bartow, and extradited to Camp Chase, Ohio. He died at the camp in 1861.</p><br>
<p>Following his death, George&#39;s wife Catherine Neeson completed the house. She lived with her 3 children, none of whom were ever married. However, they did adopt a young boy, Walter Curnutte, who lived there until his death in 1975.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration and NRHP listing</h3><br>
<p>In 1999, Jim Rote purchased the house and renovated it for 13 years.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Wilson School is a historic school building located at Mannington in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. It was built in 1912, and is a two-story, rectangular brick building with a raised basement. The symmetrical building has a flat roof and crenellated parapet with Collegiate Gothic detailing. The school closed in 1979, and is now occupied by the West Augusta Historical Society Museum. Other museum-related attractions on the property are the Price Log House  and a B&O Railroad Caboose .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Matthew Callahan Log Cabin is located on South Third Street in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It was built in the early 1880s. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with a group of other historic properties in the city.</p><br>
<p>It was one of many log cabins built during Aspen&#39;s earliest years of settlement. Today it is one of the few buildings left in the city from that era, and the only one from prior to 1885 with hand-hewn logs. It has been expanded, but the original structure remains intact.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The cabin is located on the west side of South Third, just south of the intersection with West Hopkins Avenue, in Aspen&#39;s residential West End. There are a few single-family houses among the surrounding properties. The land is flat, with the foot of one of the ridges of Aspen Mountain just beyond West Hyman Avenue to the south. Many mature trees shade the houses in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a one-story structure built of rectangular hand-hewn logs The north side is faced in board-and-batten.</p><br>
<p>Next to the screen door the southern addition, longer than the main block but not as tall, protrudes. Other than being sided in vertical flushboard similar to that in the cabin&#39;s gable fields, it has identical treatment. A complementary screen door, the main entrance, opens onto a stone-tiled patio. Its east (front) facade has two large rectangular windows with wide plain wooden surrounds. Similar windows are on the other facades, including those of another addition on the west.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1870s, shortly after Colorado became a state, prospectors began crossing the Continental Divide at Independence Pass in search of silver deposits in the Roaring Fork Valley. Many set up their tents about 10 mi below the pass at the confluence of the Roaring Fork and its tributary Castle Creek first area they found suitable for large-scale settlement. It was called Ute City at first for the dominant local Native American tribe, but the prevalence of aspen trees in the forests soon gave it the name it has had ever since.</p><br>
<p>Those same forests provided ample timber for the construction of the log cabins that would replace the early tents as Aspen grew. There were indeed many silver lodes in the mountains surrounding Aspen, and the possible fortunes drew the attention of Eastern investors. The growing city was designated the temporary seat of newly created Pitkin County in 1881, and this attracted not only more miners but tradesmen, merchants and builders, all hoping to profit from the boom. Matthew Callahan was one of them. It is likely that he built not only the current cabin for his family, but other buildings in the growing city.</p><br>
<p>When it was built, the Callahan cabin probably had its entrance on the north. Aspens 1889 city directory gives the familys address as 401 West Hopkins. At some point after 1890 that side was refaced in board-and-batten and the entrance moved to its current location on the addition. The original painted cedar shingles on the roof were replaced as well.</p><br>
<p>Eventually most of the original cabins were demolished to clear the way for more finished miner&#39;s cottages, and then larger wood frame or brick houses as the city prospered. Some were incorporated into other houses, as was the case with the Davis Waite House in the late 1880s. Those that remained after this period succumbed to fire or neglect in the years after the silver market collapsed following the 1893 repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. The Callahan cabin, which remained in the family for 65 years, is one of the few that have survived and remained intact, even with several additions.</p><br>
<p>American Revolution Statuary is a group of fourteen statues in Washington, D.C., that honor men whose actions assisted the Thirteen Colonies in their fight against the Kingdom of Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War. They are spread throughout the city, except for the four statues in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, that honor some of the foreign heroes from the war. Some of the statues are located in prominent places, while others are in small parks or stand alone in front of buildings. All of the statues are owned and maintained by the National Park Service, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. The statuary was collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1978 and the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites the following year. In addition, most are also contributing properties to historic districts listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>The first statue in Washington, D.C., honoring Revolutionary War heroes was the equestrian statue of President and General George Washington. It was installed in 1860. The remaining statues were erected from 1878 to 1948. with most being installed in the early 20th-century. All but one of the statues are cast in bronze. Benjamin Franklin&#39;s statue was carved in marble. The statues depict American military men, two American politicians, and an eighth statue depicts a military man who was also governor of Massachusetts. Five statues depict European officers who aided the American cause, and a British politician who spoke out for the American cause. The USA Congress authorized the original placement of all the statues, and all but four were fully paid for with federal funds. Some of the statues have been moved from their original locations.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th-century</h3><br>
<p>Beginning in the mid-1800s, Congress, societies, and descendants of the American Revolutionary War forces wanted to install statues throughout Washington, D.C., to honor notable men who helped the USA win independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. The first outdoor statue in the nation&#39;s capital depicted Thomas Jefferson. It was displayed north of the White House in 1847, but was returned to the United States Capitol in 1874. In 1853, the equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson was installed in the center of Lafayette Square. It was the first equestrian statue made in the USA</p><br>
<p>Clark Mills was commissioned to create an equestrian statue of George Washington, the countrys first president and commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. The equestrian statue was installed in 1860 in Washington Circle, the first of the 14 American Revolutionary statuary to be erected in Washington, D.C. It is considered one of the citys best equestrian statues. The third statue, depicting Benjamin Franklin in a standing pose, was sculpted by Jacques Jouvenal and installed in 1889. It was later moved to its current location in front of the Old Post Office. Franklin&#39;s statue is one of four of the statues not paid for by the USA government. It was a donation from Stilson Hutchins, founder of The Washington Post. The park had been named after him during his 1824 visit to the USA</p><br>
<h3>20th-century</h3><br>
<p>The majority of the Revolutionary War statues were installed in the 20th-century. The first to be erected in the 20th-century, and the fifth overall, was that of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, in 1902. The statue of the Comte de Rochambeau was sculpted by Fernand Hamar and is the other French military hero honored in Lafayette Square. The sixth statue, sculpted by William Couper, depicts Doctor John Witherspoon, a politician, minister, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was dedicated in 1909 and paid for by members of the Church of the Covenant (now known as National Presbyterian Church). It is located at the intersection of 18th Street, Connecticut Avenue, and N Street NW. The seventh and eighth statues, depicting Polish heroes Tadeusz Kościuszko and Casimir Pulaski, respectively, were dedicated on the same day in 1910. Kościuszkos statue, sculpted by Antoni Popiel, was the third installed in Lafayette Square and Pulaskis equestrian statue, sculpted by Kazimierz Chodziński, stands on the eastern end of Freedom Plaza after being moved several times in its history. Also in 1910, the statue of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, sculpted by Albert Jaegers, was installed in Lafayette Square.</p><br>
<p>The John Paul Jones Memorial, honoring the Continental Navy captain, was sculpted by Charles Henry Niehaus and is located in West Potomac Park. It was erected in 1912 and became the tenth Revolutionary War statue to be installed. In 1914, another naval hero, Commodore John Barry, was memorialized with a statue in Franklin Square. His statue was sculpted by John J. Boyle.</p><br>
<p>Washington, D.C., has the largest amount of outdoor statues in the country. The statues were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on July 14, 1978. The statuary was added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites the following year on March 3, 1979. Due to their locations in places originally planned by Pierre Charles LEnfant, many of the statues are contributing properties (CP) to the LEnfant Plan. Others are CPs to historic districts, including the four at Lafayette Square, that are CPs to the Lafayette Square Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>List of statues</h2><br>
<p>The William H. Ray House is a historic house located at 415 South University Avenue in Provo, Utah. A prominent non-Mormon in Provo, Utah, William H. Ray was one of the founders of the State Bank of Provo. A financier, banker, and broker, Ray organized the Ray Investment Company as an insurance and real estate brokerage firm. The William Ray House, which was built around 1898, "Combines Romanesque Revival elements with classical detailing in a personalized manner ." The William H. Ray House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmark Register on April 28, 1995. It is currently divided into apartments.</p><br>
<h3>The Victorian Mansions of Provo</h3><br>
<p>Built between the years 1893 and 1908 in Provo, Utah, this group of Victorian mansions are historically significant and represent not only fine architecture but some of the most successful men of the city and state at the time. These mansions include the Charles E. Loose House, the William H. Ray House, the Knight-Allen House, the John R. Twelves House, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Mangum House, and the Thomas N. Taylor House. All of these homes derive from the high style: Eastlake, Shingle, Craftsman, Italianate, Classical, Moorish, Colonial, and Romanesque Revivals. Made primarily of brick, these homes exhibit the finest architecture and most ornate detailing to be found in the city of Provo.</p><br>
<h3>William H. Ray</h3><br>
<p>Born on December 30, 1864, to William and Martha E. Ray, in Gentry County, Missouri, William H. Ray grew up on a farm. After becoming certified as a teacher, Ray worked in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, before settling in Salt Lake in 1890. Once in Salt Lake, Ray worked as a car inspector for the Union Pacific Railroad and then the Oregon Short Line Railway Company, and in addition to this invested in real estate. "In spite of limited salary from the railway company and therefore limited investment funds, in a period of five years he had advanced to become the senior partner in W. H. Ray Company, the largest real estate business in the area (Provo City Library p. 1)." In 1894 William H. Ray married Lottie L. Chappell, and had six children. Ray was a member of the Provo Community Congregational Church. Ray died on October 31, 1936, and was buried in Provo.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation</h3><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of a multiple property submission that nominated seven and listed six Provo houses. The listed houses are the Knight-Mangum House, the John R. Twelves House, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Allen House, this, the William H. Ray House, and the Thomas N. Taylor House. The seventh, the Charles E. Loose House, was determined to be NRHP-eligible but was not NRHP-listed due to owner objection.</p><br>
<p>The Provo Third Ward Chapel is a historic building located in Provo, Utah. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 2, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Under the direction of Bishop Thomas N. Taylor, the Provo 3rd Ward chapel was completed in 1903, exemplifying one of the first English Parish Gothic churches in Utah. The building was designed by architect Richard C. Watkins, native of Provo. The cornerstone was laid in a ceremony on April 25, 1901. An adjoining amusement hall was built in 1913, and the entire interior was redone in the late 1930s under the direction of architect Fred L. Markham.</p><br>
<h3>History</h3><br>
<p>In 1901 the recently formed Provo Third Ward of the Utah Stake was responsible for the construction of a new chapel. Using primarily local materials and locally employed workers, Bishop Thomas N. Taylor, also the mayor of Provo, and his building committee composed of Arthur Dixon, Edgar Perry, and H. J. Maiben, undertook the project. The cost of the new building was $11,000 and it was completed in 1903. The chapel received an organ that had been used in the Provo Tabernacle in 1907. The adjoining amusement hall was added in 1913, but only the top floor was finished at an additional cost of $15,000. In 1926 the lower floor of the amusement hall was completed for an additional $5,600. The Provo Third Ward Chapel and Amusement Hall served not only as a chapel for worship, but also provided the Saints with a place to interact socially in forms of dance, musicals, sports, etc. During World War II the amusement hall was transformed to serve as army barracks for Army Specialized Training Units associated with Brigham Young University.</p><br>
<h2>Later use and ownership</h2><br>
<p>The building was eventually vacated by the LDS Church in the year 1979 and sold. Subsequently, it has been used for various purposes including serving as the Ivy Tower dance club between 1989 and 1992. Other occupants included Scampi&#39;s restaurant and private academies.</p><br>
<p>From 1992 to 2021 it has been owned and operated by the Discovery Academy, a therapeutic boarding school. It was run by Dr. Eugene Thorne, a FLDS member and former BYU professor. Many allegations of child abuse, neglect, cruel and unusual punishment, isolation and solitary confinement of the students surfaced in recent years through the Breaking Code Silence Movement led by Paris Hilton and the docu-series The Program exposing how these facilities were set up. During this time this historical building was set up as a modern day prison, locking down children who had never been convicted through the court systems.</p><br>
<p>In 2022, Discovery Academy split into two organizations: Discovery Connections and Discovery Day. Discovery Day was a day treatment center for troubled youth that operated in the building and Discovery Connections operated in the school building next door to the west. Discovery Day closed its operations in 2023. The Provo 3rd Ward Chapel was designated to the historic Provo Landmark register on April 28, 1995.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Fairmont Normal School Administration Building is a historic school building located on the campus of Fairmont State University at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It was built between 1915 and 1917, and is a large three-story Classical Revival style building sited atop a hill overlooking Locust Avenue. Its light coated brick exterior walls are ornamented with limestone and terra cotta details. Its front features a portico with eight Ionic order columns with shafts made of Indiana Blue Limestone. The original building measured 265 feet by 65 feet; the west wing was added in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The building was renamed Hardway Hall in 1989 for Wendell G. Hardway, a former president of Fairmont State College. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Jacobs-Hutchinson Block, also known as Peoples&#39; National Bank and Friendly Furniture Store, is a historic commercial building located at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It was built in 1902, and is a five-story commercial structure with a basement and a flat roof in the Renaissance Revival style. It is a steel column and beam structure, sheathed with pressed brick, blue stone, and terra cotta. It rests on a stone foundation. It measures 92 feet by 80 feet deep and 84 feet high. The building has housed department stores, a bank, a furniture store, and law offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Shaw House is a historic home and national historic district located at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. The district includes two contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The main house was built in 1919, and is a -story dwelling in the Tudor Revival style. It features brick and stucco wall cladding punctuated</p><br>
<p>with simulated half-timbering, and tall chimney stacks. Also on the property are a contributing garage, well house, and entrance pavilion. The house was built for Harry Shaw (1872 - 1952), a noted attorney and jurist of the early 20th century in north-central West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Mannington Historic District is a historic district located at Mannington, West Virginia, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district includes 207 contributing buildings in Mannington&#39;s central business district and surrounding residential areas. Notable buildings include the railroad depot (c. 1896), Exchange Bank Building (c. 1897), USA Post Office (c. 1938), Colonial Building (c. 1904), the Blackshere House (c. 1900), the Bartlett House (c. 1900), First National Bank Building (c. 1909), the Furbee Building (c. 1900), the Hammond House (c. 1855), the Modi Building (1917), and the Mannington District Public High School (1925). The contributing buildings are representative of popular late-19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places November 22, 1995.</p><br>
<p>Hamilton Round Barn is a historic round barn located near Mannington, Marion County, West Virginia. It was built in 1911, and is circular in shape, measuring 66 feet in diameter and 75 feet high at the center. It features a gambrel roof topped by a six-sided cupola. The barn has horizontal clapboard siding of poplar, painted white, and a slate roof. In 1985, it was one of only five round and polygonal barns standing in West Virginia. The barn was purchased by the West Augusta Historical Society in 1983, and is operated as a museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Kolb Brothers "Cat Camp" Inscription is a 5 ft by 9 ft painted inscription on a vertical rock face in Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, created by Emery and Ellsworth Kolb at one of their campsites during a 1911 exploration of the Colorado River. The inscription reads "E.C. & E.L. Kolb Cat Camp 2 10-28-1911." The Kolb brothers&#39; expedition began on September 28, 1911 at Green River, Wyoming and ended on November 11 at Needles, California. The Kolbs documented their journey with movies and photographs, which they sold at their studio in Grand Canyon National Park. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 7, 1988.</p><br>
<p>Fairmont Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. The district includes 97 contributing buildings and two contributing structures in Fairmonts central business district. They are in a variety of late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles. Notable buildings include the Watson Building , USA Court House and Post Office , Monongahela Valley Traction Freight House , the Jacobs and Hutchinson complex, and the Library . The Marion County Courthouse and Sheriffs House and Robert H. Mollohan-Jefferson Street Bridge are located in the district and listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Historic District is managed and preserved by the.</p><br>
<p>Point Pleasant Historic District is a national historic district located at Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia. The district includes 93 contributing buildings and one contributing site in Point Pleasants central business district and surrounding residential areas. They are in a variety of late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles. Notable buildings include the Mansion House , The Church of Christ in Christian Union , Odd Fellows Hall , The Presbyterian Church , Christ Episcopal Church , "Hooffs Opera House" , Pioneer Cemetery, USA Post Office Building , and the Poffenbarger House. The Point Pleasant Battleground is located in the district and listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>"Elm Grove", also known as Long&#39;s Landing, is a historic home and national historic district located at Southside, Mason County, West Virginia. The district includes seven contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The manor house is a High Victorian Italianate-style brick farmhouse built in 1884. It features two round attic portholes and three porches. Also on the property is a two-story contributing log house built in 1803, 1920s bungalow, late 19th century barn, a large sandstone fireplace shaped kiln, three outbuildings, and the site of the first brick manor house built c. 1830.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>"Maplewood", also known as Sebrell-McCausland Farm, is a historic home and national historic district located near Pliny, Mason County, West Virginia. The district includes eight contributing buildings and four contributing sites. The main house is a two-story Italianate-style brick farmhouse with wood siding. It features two round attic portholes and three porches. Also on the property are the following contributing buildings / sites: a coal house, chicken house, blacksmith shop, and well house all built about 1870; the Jenny Lind House ; a schoolhouse / storage shed ; machine shed ; the ruins of the main barn and hog barn ; and the Sebrell-McCausland Cemetery and Slave Cemetery, both established about 1850.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Gen. John McCausland House, also known as "Grape Hill," is a historic home located near Pliny, Mason County, West Virginia. The main house was built in 1885, and is a two-story sandstone residence. It features a full-length, one story, five bay porch with fluted Doric order columns and metal covered hip roof. The house was built by Confederate General John McCausland . The boundary increase expanded the listing to include 23 additional contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures and designated it a national historic district. They include a variety of farm-related outbuildings and a log house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and the boundary expanded in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 2015 a complete restoration project began to bring the historic site to its original condition.</p><br>
<p>Powell-Redmond House is a historic home located at Clifton, Mason County, West Virginia. It was built in 1866, and is a -story red brick residence in the Italianate-style. It has a rear ell and features floor-length, doublehung, first story windows with heavy segmental stone lintels. The interior has a ballroom with a variety of intact ornamental plasterwork. It was built by William Henry Powell , who had established the Clifton Iron & Nail Company in 1866. Powell was a general in the American Civil War who fought mostly in West Virginia and Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Couch-Artrip House, also known as "Longmeadow" and "The Holmwood," is a historic home located near Southside, Mason County, West Virginia. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story brick residence in a vernacular Greek Revival-style. It features an Italianate style front porch and one-story addition, added about 1875. It also has a corbeled cornice composed of four brick courses. Also on the property are a two-room, one-story Greek Revival office / school room and a log building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Lawrenceville Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, which is located at 279 Fisk Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, opened on May 10, 1898.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the architectural firm Alden & Harlow, it was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on July 28, 2004, and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecture</h2><br>
<p>Originally commissioned as part of Andrew Carnegie&#39;s first grant to Pittsburgh, this historic library was the second library in the Pittsburgh city system to open, following the Main Branch.</p><br>
<p>It was also the sixth Carnegie funded library to open in America and the very first to have the new revolutionary policy of open or self-service shelves. The first five libraries to open in America, as well as the seventh, Carnegie Library of Homestead, which opened six months after Lawrenceville, were originally closed stack libraries where a clerk was needed to fetch books for the patrons. The eighth to open in America, the West End Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, opened January 31, 1899, would also have open stacks.</p><br>
<p>The Lawrenceville Branch was also the first library to have a dedicated Children&#39;s room. It was designed by the architectural firm Alden & Harlow, and it was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on July 28, 2004, and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the library stands was donated by the local school board from the grounds of the Foster School. This property was originally a cemetery dating to the early days of Lawrenceville, and a historic gravestone thought to have been uncovered during construction is kept in the library.</p><br>
<p>Eastham House, also known as Glenn Manor, is a historic home located at Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, L-shaped, brick residence with a low-pitched, slate-covered gable roof in the Greek Revival-style. Also on the property is a contributing c. 1820 smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Shumaker-Lewis House, also known as Virgil A. Lewis House, was a historic home located in Mason, West Virginia. It was built about 1885, and was a two-story Victorian-era frame cottage. It featured a two tier Eastlake movement style porch. It was the home of Virgil A. Lewis , the first State Historian and Archivist of West Virginia, 1905–1912. It was the headquarters of the Mason City Historical Society. It was demolished in 2014 and the Virgil A. Lewis Park now occupies the site.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Gold Houses, also known as the Gold Brothers&#39; Houses, are two historic homes located at Mason, Mason County, West Virginia. The two houses were built in 1908, and are -story, mirrored pair frame dwellings in the Queen Anne style. They feature pyramidal shaped slate roofs that curve outward to the eaves. They also have wraparound porches enclosed by a spindled balustrade with a circular roof at one corner. Also on the property are a rusticated concrete block garage with a gambrel roof and an original privy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, one of the houses was set on fire by its then current occupant for what was believed to be insurance fraud, although this was never proven and no charges were ever filed. The house stood empty for a few more years, never being reconstructed and was demolished in the latter part of the decade.</p><br>
<p>Smithland Farm, also known as the General John McCausland Memorial Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Henderson, Mason County, West Virginia. The main house is a two-story frame structure constructed in 1869. The house is a side-gabled, two-story, weatherboarded frame structure with a two-story frame wing. The property includes a contributing corncrib , silo , pole barn , barn , main barn , block school , and Poffenbarger Cemetery . It was for many years part of a larger farm owned by Confederate General John McCausland. The West Virginia Department of Agriculture acquired the farm in 1981.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Algoma Coal and Coke Company Store, also known as Tug River Health Clinic, is a historic company store building located at Algoma, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was built in the 1948 to a design by Welch architect Hassel T. Hicks. It is a two-story building with a flat roof, with exterior walls of glazed yellow tile with alternating bands of red brick in the Moderne style. It originally housed a store and offices and has also been home to a health clinic.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Ashland Company Store is a historic company store building located at Ashland, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was built in 1907, and is a two-story brick commercial building on a brick and stone foundation. It has a low hipped roof. In addition to the store, the building housed a warehouse, the paymaster&#39;s office, USA Post Office, and company offices. The post office was in use until 1991. Also on the property is a gym building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Cuban Friendship Urn, also known as the Cuban–American Friendship Urn or USS Maine Memorial, is a marble statue in Washington, D.C., listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The monument originally stood in Cuba to honor the American deaths aboard the USS Maine preceding the Spanish–American War in 1898.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is located on Ohio Drive, Southwest, Washington, D.C., in West Potomac Park (next to the boundary of East Potomac Park), south of the Tidal Basin near the north end of the 14th Street Bridge. Decorations on the 7 ft tall urn include an eagle with its wings outstretched and human figures depicted in a neoclassical style. It once stood atop a column of marble in Havana, to commemorate the USA sailors and Marines who lost their lives aboard the USS Maine when it sank in Havana harbor in 1898, and the friendship and bonds between Cuba and the United States. A Spanish inscription on the urn reads:</p><br>
<p>And in English translation:</p><br>
<p>The memory of the Maine will last forever through the centuries as will the bonds of friendship between the homeland of Cuba and the homeland of the United States of North America. —Gerardo Machado</p><br>
<p>An inscription on the base reads:</p><br>
<p>And in English translation:</p><br>
<p>This urn was sculpted from a fragment of the marble column of the Monument to the Victims of the Maine. Erected in the City of Havana, this column was taken down by the hurricane of October 20, 1926.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A hurricane in October 1926 knocked the marble column over where it stood in Cuba, and in 1928 the urn was sent by Cuban President Gerardo Machado to the United States and presented to President Calvin Coolidge.</p><br>
<p>Some reports say the urn stood for many years outside the Cuban Embassy on 16th Street, N.W., in Washington. After relations between the United States and Cuba deteriorated following Fidel Castro&#39;s rise to power in Cuba in 1959, it disappeared from public view. It may have been stolen by "xenophobic vandals. during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis", or it may have been removed for a construction project.</p><br>
<p>According to the National Park Service, the urn was placed in a West Potomac Park rose garden in 1928, as directed by Congress, near the future location of the Jefferson Memorial, where it remained until the 1940s, when it was moved for the 14th Street Bridge. In 1963, it was said to be in storage.</p><br>
<p>A 2009 National Park Service publication states that it was discovered in a National Park Service warehouse in 1992 and moved to its present site. The newspaper later reported that the urn was placed in East Potomac Park in 1998 following repair work that cost $11,000.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the urn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It has been called one of the "10 monuments you’ve probably never heard of" in the Washington, D.C., region.</p><br>
<p>The Newton Theater  is located at 3601 12th Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C., in the Brookland neighborhood. The Art Deco building was designed by John Jacob Zink and opened on July 29, 1937. Zink is credited with more than 200 movie theater projects in this region. The first film shown at the Newton Theater was I Met Him in Paris, starring Claudette Colbert and Robert Young.</p><br>
<p>After the theater closed in the mid-1960s, the Catholic University of America purchased the building and used it until 1971. The Newton Theater resumed screening films in the late 1970s, under the ownership of the Brookland Community Corporation, but that, too, ended in 1979. The theater hosted punk rock concerts throughout 1984, featuring bands like Hüsker Dü, Government Issue, Negative Approach, Void, Iron Cross, 9353, Honor Role, and Malefice. The Newton Theater was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Pocahontas Fuel Company Store and Office Buildings are a historic company store and an office building located at Jenkinjones, McDowell County, West Virginia. Both buildings were designed by architect Alex B. Mahood and built in 1917. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Born in Glynneath, Wales, Jenkin B. Jones (1841-1916), the namesake for the coal town of Jenkinjones, West Virginia, founded the Pocahontas Fuel Company after consolidating several coal mining operations in 1907. The two buildings were constructed to be durable and also as a symbol of success within the community.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The two-story brick company store sits on a stone foundation. It features a brick cornice with a concrete parapet and a concrete entablature with dentils in the Classical Revival style. The store building housed the store and a post office.</p><br>
<p>The office is a two-story brick building with a flat roof. It has a bold concrete cornice with dentils across the front facade.</p><br>
<p>Pocahontas Fuel Company Store, also known as Norfolk Coal & Coke Company Store and Henderson Market, was a historic Pocahontas Fuel Company company store building located at Maybeury, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was built before 1903, and was a one- to two-story wood-frame building on a stone foundation. It featured a pyramidal roof in one corner.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
